The Dream Revisited: The Poor Door Debate
Launched on Martin Luther King Jr. Day earlier this year, The Dream Revisited is a slow debate on the causes and consequences of racial and economic segregation in neighborhoods and schools. It is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center’s year-long Integration Research Initiative.
The twelfth discussion in The Dream Revisited weighs the controversy about “poor doors” in the context of a debate over the costs and benefits of mixed-income housing in high-cost markets. Essays in this discussion include:
- “There are Worse Things in Housing Policy than Poor Doors” by Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
- "Housing Priorities: Quality is More Important than the Number of Entrances" by Carol Lamberg, former Executive Director for the Settlement Housing Fund.
- “Separate but Equal Redux: Resolving and Transcending the Poor Door Conundrum" by Mark L. Joseph, Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University and Director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities.
- “Inclusionary Housing Delivers Diverse Neighborhoods and a Better New York” by Ben Beach, Legal Director at The Partnership for Working Families.
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The Dream Revisited is presented as part of the NYU Furman Center's Integration Research Initiative and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations. If you have any comments or suggestions for future discussions, send us an email to fccommunications@nyu.com.
